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Cover Alert | David Rawlings Machine Tackles Grateful Dead

Earlier this week we sharedDavid Rawlings Machine's
version of Led Zeppelin's "Going To California" featuring John Paul Jones on mandolin.
Rawlings' tour with John Paul Jones has continued and on Wednesday night at Athens'
Georgia
Theatre the band premiered a Grateful Dead cover.

[Photo by Mark Seliger]

The band features Rawlings and longtime collaborator Gillian Welch with Jones, Paul Kowert
and Willie Watson. Our friends at Jamgrass.net captured
video
of most of the group's cover of "Deal":

The Dead and Led Zeppelin had an interesting encounter in 1969. You can read all about it
at
Dead
Essays.